Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

When time passed quietly to late January, Liang En and the others finally completed all preparations related to the salvage work, and then took a plane together to Florida in the United States.

As one of the southernmost states in the United States, it has a warm climate, fertile soil, and abundant water resources, providing very favorable conditions for agricultural development.

Citrus production accounts for 75% of the country's total production. Vegetable production is second only to California. Agriculture, along with tourism and manufacturing, form the three pillars of the state's economy. The forest coverage rate is 60%.

At the same time, this place also has a high-tech side. For example, the NASA launch center at Cape Canaveral (also known as Cape Kennedy) on the Atlantic coast of Florida represents the country's top aerospace industry.

When Liang En and the others were taking a passenger plane to their destination, I saw a rocket launch. Although the distance was so far that I could only see a white smoke column that broke through the clouds and stretched into the blue sky, I could feel the shock of humankind's top technology. .

Shortly after the plane landed, Liang En and the others took a car to their destination, Key West, the southernmost city in the United States. The most famous attraction here is Hemingway's former residence, as well as the beautiful tropical scenery.

However, Liang En and the others did not have much time and energy to appreciate these scenic spots that were either beautiful or of important historical value. Instead, they went straight to the dock to see the ships used in this salvage activity.

Different from the situation in movies, games or novels, these two salvage ships are not the kind of large salvage ships that are fully equipped with helicopter hangars and have a displacement of several thousand or even tens of thousands of tons. A boat over 1000t.

Naturally, the performance of this kind of small boat is limited to offshore salvage work. It can only sustain itself for 20 days at sea. It cannot leave too far, let alone enter the deep sea.

Fortunately, as a professional salvage vessel, the various equipment on board are very complete and can perfectly complete the salvage work in shallow sea areas, which is considered to meet Liang En's needs.

In addition to checking the working parts of the ship, Liang En also checked the cabins on the ship. Compared with the previous expedition cruise ships he had taken, the accommodation conditions on this ship were obviously much simpler.

Each ordinary crew cabin is only ten square meters, with two bunk beds for four people. As for the most luxurious captain's quarters, it is only seven or eight square meters in size and has its own small bathroom.

After all, the space on board this kind of small special ship is limited. In order to ensure the reliability of the function, the comfort of living sometimes has to be sacrificed. Fortunately, this ship will dock once every half a month, so the impact is not too big. .

More importantly, they were fully mentally prepared for this trip. At the same time, the things that might be salvaged and the bonuses after salvaging the things also attracted everyone's attention, so everyone did not feel that the conditions on the ship were unbearable.

Because all the preparations before going to sea had been made, Liang En and his fleet of two small boats quickly left the dock and sailed toward the sea after everyone arrived.

Because of the strengthening of the cards before, Liang En had a special understanding of the sea. In addition, with the memory of another world and the divination, he had already roughly determined the approximate scope of the ship's sinking.

The reason why it is said is probably because ocean currents are often related to weather, and weather is basically unpredictable, so the specific locations of these treasures located in shallow seas that are easily affected by ocean currents are difficult to determine.

Fortunately, they had narrowed the search area as much as possible, so a few hours after launching the search that afternoon, the two ships quickly discovered an underwater anomaly through metal detectors.

So they immediately put the previously prepared underwater robot into the water through the winch on the ship, and then controlled the underwater robot to drive to the place where the abnormal situation had been observed.

Soon, the metal detector on the underwater robot felt a strong metal reaction in the sand not far away, and then used the mechanical claw mounted on the robot to start digging.

Because the sediment on the seabed was very loose, the excavation work went smoothly. After ten minutes, a metal cylinder nearly 3 meters long appeared in the dug pit.

"This is a Spanish cannon from the early 17th century. It should be a 24-pounder gun. It is often used as a mid-deck gun on large warships and is also the main artillery of those large warships."

After directing the robot to circle around the cannon, Liang En quickly figured out the age and model of the cannon from the videos and photos taken at close range.

After all, after entering the Age of Discovery, the artillery of various countries, especially the artillery of the navy, has a certain uniformity in casting, so you should be able to judge the condition of these artillery just by taking a big look.

This cannon can even be used to determine the situation of this sunken ship, because according to tradition, the 24-pounder cannon was only used to arm battleships in the 17th century. Being able to find this cannon means that there should be a search for more important sunken ships nearby.

Although the organic matter on the ship may rot or be carried away by the complex ocean currents offshore, the possibility of those metal items remaining in place is not small.

"This discovery does have some value." Joan of Arc also saw the value of this artillery. "Can you determine which ship the cannon came from?"

"It's definitely not possible now. Unless we can bring this cannon to the ship for treatment, it's impossible to see what's on it with the current level of rust on the cannon." Liang En looked helplessly at the thick layer of rust on the cannon. 's shook his head.

"Then what should we do next? Take this cannon up and inspect it carefully?" Fan Meng asked, looking at the cannon in the video.

It is not easy to lift this cannon, which may weigh several tons, out of the water. After all, this thing is not easy to transport in terms of weight and size.

Not to mention that after being soaked in seawater for so many years, the overall structure of the artillery is likely to have problems. For example, when it comes out of the water, the fragile balance of the current artillery is destroyed due to an instant change in the force state, causing damage.

This is very likely for metal items in warm ocean water, as those metals corrode easily in the oxygen-containing waters of shallow oceans.

"No, we don't need to fish this cannon now." Liang En shook his head and said, then turned to French and gave the order to the robot operator next to him to let the other party's remote-controlled robot check the surrounding seabed.

As the surrounding seawater is accelerated by the water pump on the robot, it forms a flow of water that washes the sandy seabed. Layers of sediments on the seabed surface are washed away by high-pressure water cannons, revealing what is underneath.

"Stop." Less than ten minutes after he started flushing, Mr. Scord, who had been staring at the camera lens, suddenly shouted because some regular strips appeared in his field of vision.

"This may be a precious metal ingot." Liang En also stared at the surveillance camera and said. He roughly guessed what it was from the appearance of the thing. "Can you pick up one or two ingots and take a look?"

"No problem." The operator nodded slightly, then the two pliers on the operating robot clamped two metal bars and put them into the cage on the robot, and then let the robot slowly take the salvaged things. Surfaced.